Whats the chances its all dead??

N00bbuilder79 · 4 Apr 2011 at 13:43

Hi all, whilst I was away with work my wife decided she was going to use my computer as opposed to her laptop, when she went to switch it on she was greeted by a "pop" and nothing else, the power button on the front of the case was no longer illuminated and that was that.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that the PSU has gone bang but what are the chances its took other stuff out with it, you hear horror storys of whole systems being taken out via a PSU but is this not more likely to happen with a power spike as opposed to a PSU meeting its maker.

Further to this can anyone recommend a good 1000Watt PSU, not too bothered about price but has to be SLI capable (Have enough connectors for 3 Gfx) and must be modular.

Cheers all

~REALiTY · 4 Apr 2011 at 13:45

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-219-CM&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1103

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-012-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084

Either one of those will be good

Your chances are 50/50 ive had one go pop like that on me recently and blow the whole system, but normally in my experience it has just been the PSU gone pop

topdog@OC · 4 Apr 2011 at 13:49

I haven't had a blown PSU in any modern PCs (most recent one was an 8-9 year old single core Pentium 4), but I've had half a dozen or more go on me over the years total.

Not once has it lead to the need to replace anything except the PSU itself. I've only heard of fried computers via the PSU when they get hit by something like lightning.

N00bbuilder79 · 4 Apr 2011 at 14:19

Well I guess the only thing to do is buy a new one and see what happens, fingers crossed its just the PSU thats dead.

Ordokai · 4 Apr 2011 at 14:24

Naah, considering the circumstances I'm leaning towards it just being the PSU. I get the 'omg its all dead' feeling when something goes pop (caps likely) and nothing reacts but naturally its going to be dead until you get some new juice flowing and see for yourself.

- Ordokai

FatRakoon · 4 Apr 2011 at 14:39

Just recently, a mate upgraded his GFX and the new one had 2x6pin ports. He was ok for a couple of days but he noticed a message saying that its not getting enough and so he plugged another one in... It went pop... he didnt bother turning it off, so if there was ever a moron moment, this was it.

Anyway, he asked me to have a look, and it blew the Mobo, the CPU , one of the HDs, ( he had 2 in there ), one of the Ram Sticks ( He had 4 ), and the PSU.

The one thing that should have been utterly killed was the GFX... Thats fine?

The PSU was a hiper730

It seemed to still work and when I bought him a replacement Motherboard, it killed the motherboard so Iwas piddled off at that cos I paid for that.

Ordokai · 4 Apr 2011 at 14:43

FatRakoon said:
[snip] and it blew the Mobo, the CPU , one of the HDs, ( he had 2 in there ), one of the Ram Sticks ( He had 4 ), and the PSU. [snip]

Oh, the humanity !

- Ordokai

N00bbuilder79 · 4 Apr 2011 at 15:55

Hope I'm a little bit luckier than that

Trusty · 4 Apr 2011 at 15:57

Ordokai said:
Oh, the humanity !

Lol, what film is that from?

Yeah you've just got to hope for the best.

When my Hiper went *shakes fist* it took my mobo with it aswell.....annoying!

IIDeathCubeKII · 4 Apr 2011 at 16:25

Trusty said:
Lol, what film is that from?

Yeah you've just got to hope for the best.

When my Hiper went *shakes fist* it took my mobo with it aswell.....annoying!

Not sure about a film but the commentator in the hindenburg disaster footage says it.

N00bbuilder79 · 4 Apr 2011 at 16:44

IIDeathCubeKII said:
Not sure about a film but the commentator in the hindenburg disaster footage says it.

Everyday is a school day on these forums

~REALiTY · 4 Apr 2011 at 16:51

FatRakoon said:
Just recently, a mate upgraded his GFX and the new one had 2x6pin ports. He was ok for a couple of days but he noticed a message saying that its not getting enough and so he plugged another one in... It went pop... he didnt bother turning it off, so if there was ever a moron moment, this was it.

Anyway, he asked me to have a look, and it blew the Mobo, the CPU , one of the HDs, ( he had 2 in there ), one of the Ram Sticks ( He had 4 ), and the PSU.

The one thing that should have been utterly killed was the GFX... Thats fine?

The PSU was a hiper730

It seemed to still work and when I bought him a replacement Motherboard, it killed the motherboard so Iwas piddled off at that cos I paid for that.

Ouch....

Trusty · 4 Apr 2011 at 17:47

IIDeathCubeKII said:
Not sure about a film but the commentator in the hindenburg disaster footage says it.

Nah, not what i was thinking of unfortunately. It's going to annoy the hell out of me, it's literally on the tip of my tongue.

Lemin · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:08

Trusty said:
Nah, not what i was thinking of unfortunately. It's going to annoy the hell out of me, it's literally on the tip of my tongue.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Trusty · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:23

Nah, just typed it into google and it didn't come up with anything. Maybe i just dreamt it or something. :S

Lemin · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:25

Lol off topic...

http://www.innocentenglish.com/movi...otes-from-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas.html

Trusty · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:28

Wonder if it's any good? Jim Carey, he always make me laugh!

Edit: IMDB - 5.7 :eek: